motherhood

We have recently come to realise that although we absolutely LOVE to go on adventures and stay at little guest houses all over the country, sometimes the budget just doesn’t…

I need to work on balancing our weekends.  Seriously, it’s a problem. On Saturday morning we left at 9.30 and only got home at 11pm (if you excluded the very…

So we’ve been working on our lifestyle change for close on 3 months now.  It’s been challenging, but I think that we have finally gotten into the groove of it all…

Kyla got invited to a Princess Party by one of  her friends at school. This is probably something that happens to your kids often, but for us it was a…

Tomorrow Seth and I celebrate 10 and a half years of being together, but less randomly, 7 whole years of being married. In my head it calls for loads celebration,…

Is it possible that we ever have absolutely nothing to do?  No washing to hang, no kitchen to tidy, no food to make?  Yeah, I didn’t think so.  But if…

When I entered the giveaway on A Gorgeous Life to win tickets to the Paarl Ommniberg Round The Rock Festival, I did what I usually do – imagined I won and how I…

Welcome back to another installment in our new series – I’m A Mom With Tattoos.  In case you have missed the last couple, don’t forget to check them out here. How…

Love how these posts just sum up exactly what’s going on right now, because without them I can’t seem to get it all together.  Having a couple of fuzzy brain…

When I think of awesome destination places to go in Cape Town, I’ll be honest – Sea Point is not even in my Top 10.  Well, let me correct that…

There’s this saying that goes something like, “With great parenting come great responsibility“. Not quite right?  Maybe.  But I think that parenting automatically gives you some cray super powers that…

Apparently a picture speaks a thousand words. I’ve never really put it to the test, but I often stare at a picture and have what seems like a hundred different…

  To My Favourite Husband It’s really hard to sit here and find the right words to say to you on your special day.  There is so much that I…

OK, I’ll wait till you pick your jaw up off the floor before I continue. You ready? Great! I briefly spoke about the fact that I have recently cut out…

Please don’t put me in a mommy box. Right now you’re thinking, “what are you even talking about?!”  But you’ve totally heard of these boxes, you just don’t realise that…

My sweetest Knox, As I write this your Daddy is trying really hard to get you to fall asleep in your own bed, without being cuddled to sleep (as we…

At the end of last year we sat pondering what on Earth to get our family for Christmas.  Eventually we decided that we weren’t going to waste money on random…

We officially have no more babies in our house. I’m simultaneously ecstatic and miserable about this.  Weird hey?  I guess it’s because I know that he is the last baby…

So the start of the new school year happened yesterday. Just thought I’d tell you in case you weren’t on any form of social media yesterday or maybe you just…

School starts today. It feels like just the other day it was their very, very first ever day at school.  I guess time really does fly when you are having…

Statistically speaking 80% of people that go away on holiday come back and want a holiday after their holiday to recover from their holiday.  Also, 90% of you will agree…

Getting back into the swing of things is no joke, luckily I still have a week before I take it too seriously.  Hopefully you do too, otherwise if you are…

Yo yo yo. I wasn’t really planning on doing a review of the year, but after reading so many of my favourite bloggers reviews, it made me feel a bit…